@Kidfried I came away from Control not really sure what to think. Even taking away the whole deleting my save, horrible headache-inducing visual issues and a couple of hard crashes, the game was great every once in a while but bang average for quite a lot of it. None of the guns really felt right and you couldn’t use your telekinesis often enough to solely rely on it. Not to mention the plot that just stops. It’s an odd one.
Been playing quite a lot of Friday Night Funkin'. It's a free rhythm game, playable in browsers. The music in it is very catchy, and it's a lot of fun to play. It's also got some charming visuals, particularly with the character designs.
Ys: The Oath in Felghana on my Vita. A surprising amount of voice acting in this, and some of the performances are... interesting. Margo's va is very extra in terms of her performance, and Cythia sounds like she's coming onto Adol every time she talks, lol. Perma-seductive voice.
Also, I'll admit, every time the narrator, who sounds like he's doing voice work for a nature documentary, says anything, I crack up.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Oh no. Oath in Felghana is the remake of Ys III. Lacrimosa was Ys VIII.
Still got Memories of Celceta, Origin, Ark of Napishtim, and Ys Seven (apparently Falcom quit trying with the title when they got around to that last one) to get through before I hit Lacrimosa. I'm skipping Ys V because it's the only game that never saw a release or re-release of some sort in the last few generations.
Currently Playing: Resident Evil Village: Gold Edition
They usually re-release Ys remakes on whatever the modern Sony handheld is. Now, I guess, they're stuck with home consoles, although there's a concerted effort to get a lot of their games on Switch. PC ports of their remakes are pretty much guaranteed, and pretty much their entire catalogue is available via Steam, which can't be said for any one console.
Oath in Felghana is alright. Pretty decent. I've yet to play an Ys game I haven't just automatically enjoyed (which I'll never be able to say for Trails, even if I love all of the subsequent games in the series). The music is worse than in I, II, and VIII so far, though. And the lack of dungeon maps is annoying. At least the dungeon designs are a big step up from the confused labyrinths of the first game.
The characters aren't particularly memorable this go-around, IMO, beyond the amusingly hammy voice acting, though. Falcom also falls back on stereotypes: the fat NPC, for example, talks about being hungry INCESSANTLY.
The combat is a big step up from the bump system in the first two games. There's no depth to it whatsoever, but it's snappy and makes hacking and slashing your way through swaths of enemies good fun.
The Monstrum Nox PC and Switch ports release in July, so we'll see how that turns out. I don't mind sacrificing performance for portability (there's a reason I'm playing the 30fps PSP version of Oath instead of the 60fps PC version), so if this version sticks to a solid 30fps, then I'm satisfied.
Currently Playing: Resident Evil Village: Gold Edition
@RogerRoger Same, I’ve only played it the once (on PS3 of all things) but adored it. I tried it on Vita but the controls are a nightmare for changing item/weapon. It’s also one of the games I ate back when I was a literal baby and my dad had a PS1. Discs are cold apparently so anybody with teething babies, make sure to not leave any lying about unless you want bite marks all over them! RIP Metal Gear Solid.
@RogerRoger The tanker opening sequence of MGS2 was so incredible for the time wasn’t it?
Rain drops bouncing off your character! Shooting the light out in the Olga boss fight! Being able to shoot individual bottles in the kitchen/galley area!
Ahh that's a shame to hear regarding the characters... That one in particular feels like especially lazy writing. I'd say maybe it could be a localisation thing but Cold Steel relied on anime tropes/stereotypes too and it seems like a weird thing they'd change translating it. Hopefully things liven up soon on the character front... Or at the very least you get an entertaining big bad!
I'm nearing the last part of the game now, and one of the antagonists IS interesting and (somewhat) sympathetic, at least. A smattering of side characters are likable as well. It's fine for what'll probably amount to a 15 - 20 hour experience where you spend the majority of it running around dungeons, IMO.
I also like the smaller scope of the experience so far. There's supernatural stuff, of course, and I'm sure I'll kill a god-like being of some sort by the end, but Oath in Felghana's story (what there is of it, anyhow) revolves around relationships and grudges between a handful of people in a small-ish region, so it feels a bit smaller and more personal than the other Ys games I've played.
What's there is absolutely fine, given the length, and the fact that the source material of this remake is pretty ancient in video game terms. Although, interestingly, the original Ys III aged worse than the first two, since Falcom pulled a Zelda and made this entry a side scroller when it first released. This version (PSP remake) retains the isometric viewpoint of the first two games, though, which I imagine led to more work with regard to updating the level design.
Sounds fairly decent on the gameplay front though at the least! I know in Lacrimosa and Nox there's multiple party members... Has it always been like that or do the first few YS games have just Adol to play as?
I'm going to retract my "there's no depth to the combat" complaint now. Falcom quickly starts layering in complexity as the game goes on. This boss fight I'm stuck on right now feels like isometric DMC, and my hands hurt from trying to play it on a small handheld.
On the gameplay front, I'd also like to mention that the game rewards the player for aggressive play, as multipliers for exp, defense, attack, etc. will activate when you kill an enemy, and you have to slaughter foes in quick succession to keep those going. It's a decent addition.
My understanding is that Ys didn't originally feature a party system until Ys VII, although I think the Vita remake of Ys IV includes other party members. It's just Adol in this one, though, like in the first two games.
I was going to say that the port has taken quite a while... But then I remembered the game only came out in Feburary this year. My sense of time has still not quite recovered. I'd assumed the PC version had already come out the same time as the PS4 version though!
I think the ports have taken a while, which is likely why it took NISA so long to release it on PS4. I imagine they wanted the versions to all release in the same year, at least.
EDIT: lol, I'm an idiot. I've been playing through the entire game without dashing, apparently, since Adol needs to drink a potion to gain the ability to dash, and the thing has just been sitting in my inventory. I thought it was a mere consumable. No wonder some of these boss fights have been so rough!
It’s my first time properly attempting the original DOOM outside of the first few levels. Enjoying it so far! Finished Knee Deep In The Dead so I’m moving onto the second chapter.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I remember that game! There was a lot of that sorta stuff after Diablo 2 came out but I remember the Gauntlet one being pretty decent.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yep, Diablo 2’s supposed to be the best of the lot. I could never really get into the first game on PS1 and then Diablo 3 was a bit too ‘online’ for me with characters resetting after seasons and stuff. I’ll probably try Diablo 2 when the remaster comes out.
@RogerRoger One for you here, I’ve played the first few levels of Hitman: Codename 47! It’s... odd. Brutally difficult, utterly dreadful default controls (remap them at your earliest convenience) and strange level pacing. Still, it’s weirdly fun. The music is incredible as well, although that will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the series.
Been primarily focusing on a replay of Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Wii, as after finishing the remaster of the first one I needed to play more! I've now got all 120 main stars, but am not sure whether to go for all the green ones, as it's a bit of a chore to go through all the levels again. The Wii remote and nunchuck are considerably more comfortable to hold than the pissing Switch joy-cons! Next I might replay the "Trilogy" version of Metroid Prime 2 while I've got the Wii U hooked up to the TV.
@nessisonett You know can play Diablo III pretty much totally offline, and without using seasonal characters etc., right? We've picked up playing it again recently on PS5, and it works great
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